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19 Dec 2007, 2:10 pm

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8O I assume we are talking "belly button" here? ( the hollow just in front of your rear, backwards of the "cheek"bone?)
You are one wicked anatomy teacher Gromit. I'm just sayin'. :wink: :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
He got you this time, Gromit! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :cry: :lol: :lol:

Sigh. I should treat this merely with a dignified silence. Instead I shall cast the pearls of someone's wisdom (you're not getting mine, not after what you did to me) before the ... insufficiently appreciative audience assembled here, at this moment.

You may infer which cheekbone I meant by perusing the picture below.
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Taken from here. No guarantees that any of it is useful, I haven't reviewed it, I don't know whether I'm competent to review it.

[Starched dignity, that's the thing, that showed them, so it did. :tongue:]



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19 Dec 2007, 2:10 pm

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Curiously, it now appears that Chuck made the 10,000th post, and Lauri the 10,001st. I'm confused, of course, except that someone may have deleted early posts, just to fool me into thinking I can't count (which of course, is true, as I am a mathematician).

The posts are the tenth and eleventh posts on page 668, whatever they happen to be... now... although they could change. And no, don't bother to edit them... I have an almost unblemished record of missing all major milestones in this thread.


8O Ha! Lau uncovered the secret. Yes, it may now be revealed... Lauri and I are an entity best described as "interchangeable antimatter, depending on what day it is". Some days we are the same person, sometimes twins - sometimes we exist in separate countries (yet, apparently, always on the same continent) as, ..er, separates.

8O 8O :huh: :huh: :shrug: :shrug: :duh: :duh: :help:



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19 Dec 2007, 2:12 pm

Chuck, Check (hehehe) your pm's.



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19 Dec 2007, 2:12 pm

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... If you follow the line of your cheekbone backwards, there is a hollow hust in front of your rear. I don't remember whether the relevant point is in that hollow or just below it. I think Chuck knows that sort of thing. Chuck?


8O I assume we are talking "belly button" here? ( the hollow hust in front of your rear, backwards of the "cheek"bone?)
You are one wicked anatomy teacher Gromit. I'm just sayin'. :wink: :lol:

...He got you this time, Gromit! ...


...was just kiddin' you, Gromit! :wink: :lol: (note: I am not qualified to discuss the relevant points below the belly button, probably due to my possibly being Aspie, and having only book knowledge as concerns those areas... :oops: :lol: )



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19 Dec 2007, 2:13 pm

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He got you this time, Gromit! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :cry: :lol: :lol:

Anyway, when did I ever get him? Hm? As if he would let me!



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19 Dec 2007, 2:14 pm

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He got you this time, Gromit! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :cry: :lol: :lol:

Anyway, when did I ever get him? Hm? As if he would let me!


Oh, you have so gotten him. Want me to go over the 400 pages and dig it up for you? And if you hadn't I'd gladly give you my permission to. I would probably help. :D



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19 Dec 2007, 2:17 pm

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I am not qualified to discuss the relevant points below the belly button

There are points below the belly button? That are relevant? Relevant to what? Why did no one ever tell me? Are you saying I spent all that money on that acufixture course, and they showed me only half the points?



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19 Dec 2007, 2:20 pm

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I am not qualified to discuss the relevant points below the belly button

There are points below the belly button? That are relevant? Relevant to what? Why did no one ever tell me? Are you saying I spent all that money on that acufixture course, and they showed me only half the points?


8O



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19 Dec 2007, 2:26 pm

...some places you just don't want to acupuncture. 8O or acufixture. I'm guessin'.

Anyhoo, for some reason I just remembered that it's lunchtime, and I have no idea why. So you might as well not ask - 'cuz I can't explain it.



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19 Dec 2007, 2:52 pm

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If I understand what Lau says, a migraine shuts down part of visual cortex for a while and so creates a temporary scotoma. Is that right, Lau?


The visual effects are part of migainous aura, which is one of the four phases of full migraine. Nothing much about migraine is fixed. I seem to just get a couple of the visual effects.

During the "headache" stage (called the "pain" phase), there are generally no optical effects, other light sensitivity.

The Oliver Sacks book introduced me to the terms "negative" and "positive" scotoma, and he was applying them purely to the scotoma (shadow) associated with migraine aura.

The positive scotoma includes all the "shadow" effects where something is "in the way", plus IIRC those where there are distortions (long legs, twisted faces, cubist effects).

The negative scotoma is the hard one to describe. I'm not sure that it "shuts down part of visual cortex", but that's probably close to it. I'd guess it doesn't, or there would be direct evidence. I'm inclined to a view that it is a cognitive effect - in some sense I merely cease bothering to recognise anything in the affected area.

As with all the phases of migraine, the effects are temporary and have no lasting after-effects.


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19 Dec 2007, 2:55 pm

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Anyhoo, for some reason I just remembered that it's lunchtime, and I have no idea why.

Never mind. In the words of the poet:
Ford Prefect wrote:
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.



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19 Dec 2007, 3:07 pm

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BlessedMom, I don't know how you manage. I have only one (6 years old and autistic) and you have 4, the noise level alone whould push me off the deep end. Your a "single parent" also are you not? You deserve the "Mom of the Year Award" Decade? Century? Hats off to you Lauri!! ! Ohhhh wait, I can use it here with people who will actually "get it"

"Your a better man than I Gunga Din." :hail:



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I raised my boys alone for 4 years. They were 4, 2 and 23 months when my first husband left. That was when the youngest was more autistic and he was a runner/screamer/melter-downer and I just thought it was because I was a single mom. I will take these days over those.


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19 Dec 2007, 3:14 pm

Aren't Chuck and Laurie twins? Or inhabit the same brain?

Of course BlessedMom hasn't got time to read this. I hear the zzzing of the vacuum cleaner.


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19 Dec 2007, 3:16 pm

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Aren't Chuck and Laurie twins? Or inhabit the same brain?

Of course BlessedMom hasn't got time to read this. I hear the zzzing of the vacuum cleaner.


Hahaha!! I got my vacuuming done and am now ready for a long break!
Before I take Kid2 to his counselling appointment that is.

Yes, Chuck and I share a brain. I admit it! :roll: But mine is the better looking side. :P



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19 Dec 2007, 3:44 pm

:D :D :D


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19 Dec 2007, 4:17 pm

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...Yes, Chuck and I share a brain. I admit it! :roll: But mine is the better looking side. :P


(her side also has all the prefrontal cortex. I got some of what was left over, plus the Abby Normal stuff.) :cyclopsani: